2006 · cyberpunk · thriller · sci-fi
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
Directed by Kenji Kamiyama1h 45m2006
The story takes place in the year 2034, two years after the events in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. Female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi has left Public Security Section 9, an elite counter-terrorist and anti-crime unit specializing in cyber-warfare, which has expanded to a team of 20 field operatives with Togusa acting as the field lead.
Our read: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive cyberpunk · thriller · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured cyberpunk / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
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